Financial Tribune - Iran hosted 7.29 million foreign tourists in 2018, about 50% more compared with the year before, according to the United Nations' World Tourism Organization. The country had a 2.1% share of global tourist arrivals and more than 22% in South Asia last year. A total of 4.86 foreign tourists visited Iran in 2017, 1.5% less compared ...

Persia Digest - Over four million tourists coming to Iran in the first five months of the Iranian year beginning March 2019 shows a 30 percent rise in tourism YOY. The tourism deputy for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism of Iran, Vali Teimouri, said at a press conference on World Tourism Day: In the first five months of ...

Tehran Times - Foreign travelers with motorcycle above 250cc are now allowed to enter and ride in Iran, deputy tourism chief has said. Last year, Iran imposed the ban on trading heavy motorcycles (with engine capacity of more than 250cc) due to a law concerning customs and anti-smuggling issues. The law created restrictions and sometimes difficulties ...

Tehran Times - Tourism industry has been selected as a top priority in cooperation between Iran and the International Trade Centre (ITC) for development of exports, Vali Teymouri, Irans deputy tourism chief announced on Wednesday, Mehr reported. As per the meetings held to prepare Irans national exports strategy plan, four sectors have been selected ...

IRNA About 7.8 million tourists traveled to Iran in the past Iranian year, ended on March 20, 2019, registering 52.5 percent growth compared to last years corresponding period which was 5.1 million tourists. Deputy head of Irans Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization Vali Teimouri said yesterday at the fifth ECO-Silk Road Food Festival ...

IRNA Deputy head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) described as ineffective US sanctions on tourists visiting Iran. Speaking to IRNA on Thursday, Vali Teymouri said the number of tourists visiting Iran has been unprecedented during the last Iranian calendar year. He also referred to adopting Tabriz as tourism capital ...

IRNA - Deputy Minister of Tourism of Bulgaria, in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, called for the launch of a direct flight between Tehran and Sofia, and said that there should be a joint working group of tourism for doing business. Lyuben Kancher, in a meeting with tourism deputy director of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism ...

Tehran Times - A total of 660 Iranian tourism marketers and businesses along with 57 foreign ones will participate in the 12th Tehran International Tourism Exhibition, which will be running from February 12 to 15. The number of Iranian businesses shows a 61 percent growth year on year, CHTN quoted a senior tourism official as saying on Tuesday. The ...

Financial Tribune - A total of 4,704,509 Iranians left the country for foreign destinations during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Oct. 22), indicating an 11% decline compared with the same period of last year. According to Vali Teymouri, deputy head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, Iraq, Turkey,...